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Hong Kong are, in fact, only agencies of

houses established in enemy territory, and

Lir. Boner Law has no reason to suppose that

the Hong Kong house of Meyerink mentioned in

this correspondence was anything more than

an agency of some house established in enemy

territory.

3.

Mr. Boner Law assumes for the

purpose of the present case that the Lenden

trauch of the

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Dresdner Bank being in liquidation under

the direction of His Majesty's Government

must be treated as a British Bank, but it

arpears to him that even on this assumption

the Bank ought, before attempting to make

arrangements for the transhipment of these

goods to Hong Kong, to have applied to the

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Board of Trade for a licence.

appears they did not do, and, strictly

speaking, therefore, the action taken by

them in the matter appears to have been

in contravention of the Trading with the

Enery Proclamations.

4.

Moreover, if application had

been made to the Board of Trade for a

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The Transaction not being g License of

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licence, that licence would/have made it

an express condition that the goods should

be carried on a British ship,si

since it is

doubtful whether carriage in a neutral ship

does not prevent Frize proceedings from

being taken, on the ground that such pro-

ceedings would be contrary to the

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Declaration of Paris. In fact, the goods now we question

have been brought forward in a neutral

vessel, and therefore it appears very

doubtful whether these goods could now be

acconsuy

seized and ajudicated as Frize, which woul

Which would have been hase the procedure/adopted if the

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Bank had been a British Bank and had a

the transhipment and forwarding of the

goods in accordance with the licence from

the Board of Trade. In that case the

goods would have been condemned by the

Prize Court and the Bank would have been

allowed by the Court to sell them and

satisfy their lien out of the proceeds,

accounting to the Crown for any balance

that

licence